# Facebook Marketplace Search API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/facebook/marketplace-search)

> Searches Facebook Marketplace listings by keyword + lat/lng with price, condition, delivery, and date-listed filters. Forward the returned cursor for additional pages. With `sort_by=creation_time_descend`, FB may return slightly different ordering across identical requests: for alerting workflows, scrape multiple pages and dedupe by listing id rather than assuming stable order.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/facebook/marketplace/search` costs 1 credit per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | yes | Search keyword (e.g., `bike`, `couch`). |
| `lat` | yes | Latitude of the search location. |
| `lng` | yes | Longitude of the search location. |
| `radius_km` | no | Search radius in kilometers. |
| `min_price` | no | Minimum listing price. |
| `max_price` | no | Maximum listing price. |
| `count` | no | Number of listings to return per page. |
| `sort_by` | no | Sort order for results. (suggested \| distance_ascend \| creation_time_descend \| price_ascend \| price_descend) |
| `delivery_method` | no | Delivery filter: local pickup only, shipping only, or all. (all \| local_pickup \| shipping) |
| `condition` | no | Filter listings by item condition. (new \| used_like_new \| used_good \| used_fair) |
| `date_listed` | no | Filter by listing recency (relative window or numeric day count). (all \| 1 \| 7 \| 30 \| last_24_hours \| last_7_days \| last_30_days) |
| `availability` | no | Filter by listing status: `available`, `sold`, or `all`. (available \| sold \| all) |
| `cursor` | no | Opaque pagination cursor returned by the previous response: forward as-is. |
| `max_pages` | no | 1 to 50 (default 1, or 50 when `max_items` or `max_credits` is sent). Walk up to this many pages in one call and return the rows from all of them. Each page walked is billed exactly as one call to this endpoint (a cached page is free) and counts against your rate limit; its charge and any refund are recorded under the page's own request id, listed in `data.walk.request_ids`. The walk stops early at the last page, or when the request's time budget runs low; `data.walk.stopped` says why (`end`, `max_pages`, `max_items`, `max_credits`, `time_budget`, `page_error`) and `pagination.next_cursor` continues from where it stopped. |
| `max_items` | no | 1 to 5000. Get more in one call: keep walking pages until the response holds at least this many rows, then stop with `data.walk.stopped: "max_items"`. The last page is returned whole (it was billed), so `data.items` can hold up to one page more than this, and `pagination.next_cursor` resumes right after it without skipping a row. Walks up to 50 pages unless `max_pages` says fewer; each page is billed as one call (a cached page is free). Add `max_credits` to cap the spend. A long walk can stop on the time budget first (`"time_budget"`): send the returned cursor with the same params to continue. |
| `max_credits` | no | 1 to 100000. The most this call may spend, across every page it walks. A page starts only while the credits already spent plus that page's price (or, when higher, the most any page of this walk has cost) still fit, so the call never goes past it; the walk then stops with `data.walk.stopped: "max_credits"` and the cursor to resume. Sent alone, it walks as far as the budget goes (up to 50 pages). A value below the price of one page is a free 400 whose `error.details.page_credits` names that price. Credits a row join (`include=`) adds are known only once a page has run, so page 1 is checked against its own price. |

## Code example

```bash
curl -G "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/facebook/marketplace/search" \
  --data-urlencode "query=bike" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=40.7128" \
  --data-urlencode "lng=-74.0060" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## FAQ

### What is the Facebook Marketplace API?

GET /v1/facebook/marketplace/search returns Facebook Marketplace listings for a keyword near a location. Pass query, lat, and lng, and each result comes back with price, title, image, location, and seller. It costs 1 credit per call.

### How do I filter Marketplace listings by price and condition?

Add optional params like min_price, max_price, condition, delivery_method, radius_km, and date_listed to narrow results, and sort_by to control ordering. This lets you build price and deal monitoring without scraping the site yourself.

### How do I get the lat and lng for a city?

Marketplace search needs coordinates, not a city name. Call /v1/facebook/marketplace/location/search with a place name to resolve the area to its coordinates, then pass those as lat and lng here. Both calls cost 1 credit each.

### How do I paginate through more listings?

Take the cursor value from the response and pass it as the cursor param on the next call to fetch the next page. Use the count param to set page size, and keep calling until the cursor comes back empty.

### Is scraping Facebook Marketplace with this API reliable?

Yes. SocialCrawl handles the rotating tokens, geo resolution, and pagination behind one x-api-key, so you get clean JSON instead of maintaining a headless-browser scraper. New accounts start with 100 free credits and no card.

See the full Facebook API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/facebook

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing

## Explore with AI

Questions this API answers, phrased for an AI assistant:

- How do I search Facebook Marketplace listings with an API?
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